feminism

Explores the roles of women during the 1950s, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds.

Explains why the Equal Rights Amendment has not been passed in enough states to become law.

A collection of twenty-one folk and fairy tales from around the world featuring clever heroines.

Fifteen-year-old Joanne, raised in San Francisco's Haight District, becomes involved with Martin, a hippy, and various aspects of the late 1960s cultural revolution despite her middle-class upbringing.

In Uttar Pradesh, a woman's life is not entirely her own. Stories of forced marriages, early pregnancies and worse, the women of Uttar Pradesh have known they are not important. But this has changed with the emergence of the Gulabi (Pink) Gang. Sampat Pal, the leader of what has become known as the Pink Sari Revolution, and her women's brigade (numbering in the tens of thousands) have taken control. Uniformed in pink saris and carrying pink batons, they aim to intervene wherever other women are victims of abuse and injustice. Poor and illiterate, married off at age twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has confronted policemen and gangsters and empowered Indian women to become financially independent.

Explores the history of the global, social, and political Feminist Movement from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book traces the history of the women's movement from the 1848 regional U.S. women's conference, the Seneca Falls Convention to the signing of legislation in 2010 by President Barack Obama making it easier for women to fight wage inequities in the workplace.